David Smith walks us through what’s new in R 4.0:
R 4.0.0 was released in source form on Friday, and binaries for Windows, Mac and Linux are available for download now.
As the version number bump suggests, this is a major update to R that makes some significant changes. Some of these changes — particularly the first one listed below — are likely to affect the results of R’s calculations, so I would not recommend running scripts written for prior versions of R without validating them first. In any case, you’ll need to reinstall any packages you were using for R 4.0.0. (You might find this R script useful for checking what packages you have installed for R 3.x.)
And I just got 3.6 into production yesterday. Them’s the breaks…